Happy, delicious, conscious living, from Canada.

Category: Food & Drink

Kombucha is a fermented tea beverage that has been consumed for thousands of years. It assists in maintaining healthy bacteria levels in the digestive tract. You may have heard about its relationship to “gut health”, but did you know it can also strengthen your immune system and help you fight off illnesses?

Last week I shared my interview with Wake Robin Farm – a small farm that curates the CSA bag which I receive on a bi-weekly basis. I love receiving a portion of their seasonal bounty – it always inspires me to get cooking. Not too long ago I received some beautiful dill in my bag. I knew immediately that it was ranch makin’ time!

When it comes to growing and buying fruits and vegetables, we all know that there many ways to go about it. This summer I discovered a new (to me) way of gathering delicious fruits, vegetables, and honey that fits me and my lifestyle perfectly – buying directly from local farms with a community supported agriculture (CSA) program. They are gaining serious local popularity! I chose Wake Robin Farm’s CSA.

I’d like to thank Ryan, Adam, and Amanda of Wake Robin Farm for allowing me to pick their brain on things farming and food related – namely, to understand how a CSA works, why buying local matters, to learn what goes on behind the scenes and to meet the hearts behind the food.

Until the last year or so, I wouldn’t have had a second thought as to where I would buy my food, and where it came from before that. (The grocery store, and probably somewhere warm?). I’ve been feeling convicted of that lately, but not in a depressing way. Thanks to a few different podcasts, websites, and friends, I have felt more inspired than I have in a long time. Mostly I have felt a shift in my thinking, a patience to learn before consuming that wasn’t there before.

Breakfast and I don’t really get along. Don’t get me wrong, I adore breakfast food, but I don’t like eating early in the morning. Most mornings I’d take a fresh juice over eggs and toast. Once 10 AM rolls around, however, totally different story.

But my aversion to eating early in the morning can’t stop me from doing it, because 9 times out of 10 I need to be at work by 8:30 AM. Enter one of my newest early morning breakfast companions, raw oat porridge. I got the idea from these lovely, inspiring, green kitchen folk.